(2)World's 1st fully cultivated tuna to debut in market

(2)World's 1st fully cultivated tuna to debut in market

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Contained in a box is the world's first fully cultivated bluefin tuna ready for marketing in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 3. Researchers at Kinki University in Osaka have succeeded in farming Pacific northern bluefin tuna from eggs, unlike existing farmed tuna that are reared from larvae caught in the wild.

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